- New
Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters, today applauded
the efforts of entertainer Gary McCormick for standing up to
the Wellington Towing Company which removed and impounded
his car recently, following an unfortunate mechanical
breakdown on a busy Wellington thoroughfare. See... Towing Companies To Become A Target For Attention [1]

- Depending on which Supercomputer weather
model you look at, rain presently headed south over the
country, may bring a few more precious millimetres of rain
to the South Island’s parched East Coast. Or it might not.
See... Supercomputer Weather: Much Rain, But Where & Why? [1]

- A New Zealand guideline launched on 10 May
shows that Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is not
recommended for routine use in postmenopausal women. Indeed,
the guideline team reports that many women do not require or
seek treatment at menopause or later in life. See... No Evidence For Routine Use Of HRT [1]

- When
avant-pop group Cloudboy commenced their nationwide tour at
the end of March, Noel Meek of LOOP posed a question: "Many
may ask why Cloudboy were cooped up in a venue the size of
BATS when there were people turned away at the door every
night and their sound is potentially stadium-filling.
Utterly unmissable a second time." See... Cloudboy Return For One Performance Only [1]

Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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